forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain verbs · As a copulative verb: · Used to indicate dates, times of day, time periods, etc., be
çekim: geçmiş war · ortaç gewesen · şimdiki ist · ulaç seiend
eş: befinden, anwesend, bestehen, leben
köken: Inherited from Middle High German sīn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”), see Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) (suppleted with *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with Dutch zijn (“to be”), Low German sien (“to be”).
aile: an sein, auf sein, aus sein, da sein, Dasein, Glücklichsein, weg sein, zu sein
to be · used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of certain verbs (including all reflexive verbs, except regionally) · used to form the passive voice
çekim: geçmiş été · ortaç été · şimdiki est · ulaç étant
köken: From Middle French and Old French estre and ester, respectively from Early Medieval Latin essere (< esse "be") and Latin stāre (“stand”). Conjugations reflect both but more so the former. The form suis "(I) am" appears to reflect Vulgar Latin *suiō < Latin sum. Compare ai "(I) have", sais "(I) know" < *aiō, *saiō < habeō, sapiō. Cognates See also Angevin éter, étère, eteur, Aragonese estar,…
aile: ça a été, ça y est, ceci étant, cela étant, c'est pour ça, c’est, en être, est-ce que, être à, être après
to be (essentially or identified as) · to be (in the passive voice sense) · to exist; to occur
çekim: geçmiş fui · ortaç sido · şimdiki es
eş: realizarse
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *ezom~*som Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom) Old Latin esum Latin sum, esse Early Medieval Latin essere Old Spanish seerinflu. Spanish eser Spanish ser From Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The form sois pl (“you are”) derives from a Vulgar Latin *sutis. Along…
aile: a no ser que, a poder ser, allá donde fueres, haz lo que vieres, como sea, érase que se era, érase una vez, es lo que hay, es que, llegar a ser, lo que sea
köken: Inherited from Latin sum, esse. The infinitive form is attested already from Early Medieval Latin essere. The past participle stato, shared with the verb stare, is from Latin stātus.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic бꙑти (byti), from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei. Cognate with Ukrainian бути (buty), Belarusian быць (bycʹ), Polish być. Other cognates include Sanskrit भू (bhū, “to be”), Latin futūrus, and English be. The present forms are suppletive, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti.
to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality · to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as) · to be; forms the passive voice
çekim: geçmiş fui · ortaç sido · şimdiki é
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ser, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The forms sou (“I am”) and sois pl (“you are”) derive from a Vulgar Latin *sonō and *sutis. Along the way, the verb absorbed Old Galician-Portuguese seer < Latin sedēre (“sit”). The latter supplied the present subjunctive of modern ser, where /-ʒ-/ reflects Late Latin /-(d)j-/, as in seja < sedeat).
to happen; in particular what happens during some extended period of time
çekim: geçmiş skedde · ortaç skedd · ulaç skeende
köken: From Old Swedish ske, from Middle Low German schên, from Old Saxon skehan, from Proto-West Germanic *skehan. Cognate with Danish ske, Norwegian skje, German geschehen, Dutch geschieden, Limburgish sji-jje.
to be (indicates sameness or membership in a class) · to be (auxilary verb used for predication) · forms the future tense of imperfective verbs
çekim: geçmiş byłem · şimdiki jest
eş: istnieć, znajdować się
zıt: nie ma
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei Proto-Slavic *byti Old Polish być Polish być Inherited from Old Polish być.
aile: zbyteczny, nabytek, pobyt, przybytek, ubytek, zbytek, być w błędzie, dobyć, dobywać, nabyć
to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing, or that the complement describes the subject) · to be (occupy a place, possibly abstractly for an action) · to be, constitute, make up, form
çekim: geçmiş ollut · şimdiki on · ulaç oleva
köken: Most forms derive from Proto-Finnic *oldak (compare Estonian olema), from Proto-Uralic *wole- / *ole- (compare Moksha улемс (ulems), Eastern Mari улаш (ulaš), Udmurt вань (vań), Northern Khanty вөԓты (wøłty), Hungarian van, volt, and possibly Tundra Nenets ӈэсь (ŋesʹ°)); see the Proto-Uralic entry for more. The forms on and ovat are irregular, with cognates found throughout Finnic, including…
to be · to feel (to experience a certain condition) · to be it in a game of tag
çekim: geçmiş fost · ortaç fost · şimdiki este
köken: Inherited from Latin sum. The citation form and the f- conjugations come from Vulgar Latin *fīre < Latin fierī (“become”). Compare Aromanian hiu.
to be · there to be, to exist · to have; someone (-nak/-nek) has something (-a/-e/-ja/-je)
çekim: geçmiş volt · ortaç volt · şimdiki lenne or · ulaç levő
zıt: nem…, nincs
köken: From Old Hungarian vagyon. See Hungarian volt. * Forms beginning with v- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- (“to be”). Cognate with Northern Mansi о̄луӈкве (ōluňkve), Finnish olla and Estonian olema. Compare inflected forms such as volt, volna, való and Old Hungarian vola or vala. See also vagy for the stem in present tense. * Forms beginning with l- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *le- (“to become”).…
aile: vagyogat, vanogat, vanni, elvan, hátravan, kivan, levan, megvan, odavan, minden rosszban van valami jó
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *ezom~*som Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom) Old Latin esum Latin sum From Proto-Italic *som~*ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“be”) + *bʰúHt (“become”). From the latter of the two derive all the /f-/ forms of Latin sum (including fore), the separate verb fīō…
aile: absum, adsum, coest, dēsum, ēns, essendus, essentia, id est, īnsum, intersum
to be · used with the past active aorist participle to form various perfect and renarrative tenses · used with the past active impefect participle to form some renarrative tenses
çekim: geçmiş none · ortaç бил · şimdiki е
köken: From Old Church Slavonic бꙑти (byti), from Proto-Slavic *byti (present stem *esmь). The initial e- has been dropped except for 3p. sg.
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei; present tense forms are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”); suppletive stem forms derive from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become”). Compare identical situation in Old Church Slavonic бꙑти (byti). Cognate to Latvian bût, Old Prussian būton, English be, Latin fuī, Persian بودن, Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (bauuaⁱti), Sanskrit अभूत् (abhūt), Albanian botë, Ancient…